This one im pretty excited about. Blatantly ripping off the idea here ive decided to make my own racing/simulation cockpit. Its a Ottoman, which has a hollow storage area in the middle. When you lift the top off, it has a fold-up seat, and contains a G27 steering wheel, with pedals bolted down and a steering wheel frame. You sit inside it to play games, and pack it up neatly into a functional couch.
I was going to just build a frame, but a cockpit of sorts you could actually sit inside of sounded great. I, however, dont really need a couch, but i do need a new coffee table. When not in use, a top can be placed on it to create a coffe table. When in use, the lid comes out, the steering wheel is mounted on top of it, and its Gran Turismo 5 time.
This also couples with my Freespace cockpit project - a cockpit with switches/buttons/whatnot. It works like any keyboard, so its compatiable with anything that can accept a USB keyboard and bind buttons. So instead of fumbling with buttons to play the game, id be using switches/levers/etc to kill Shivans. Sick of trying to target a particular ship, and going past it, and having to go through all the ships again because you never bothered to bind 'previous ship' or cant be bothered typing 'Ctrl-Alt-Mac Key-Commodore Key-F' to fire primary lasers? This will be for you!
Features include:
- Coffee Table
- Racing wheel for GT5
- Pedals reverse-mounted like a real car (push away, not push down like what comes with the plastic wheels you buy)
- Subwoofer/Speakers
- Bass Shakers (for force feedback for explosions/car engine/whatnot)
- Swappable Steering wheel/Freespace cockpit
- Custom built sequential/reverse shifter with a nice heavy feel (those plastic shifts dont do the wheels justice)
Crosssection of the box, with the right wall hidden for comparison
Closed up, a coffee table.
Seated view with the Racing wheel and custom sequential shifter to the left
Custom build freespace cockpit
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